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Article 4
• Secret ballot
• Claim of universal suffrage
The popular legitimacy is the foundation and the source of all power. It is expressed
by universal, equal and secret suffrage.
The executive power and legislative power shall proceed from universal suffrage or
from the instances elected through it.
• Restrictions on voting
Article 5
All the Djiboutian nationals of majority, of both sexes, enjoying their civil and
political rights are electors within the conditions determined by the law.
• Right to form political parties
Article 6
The political parties and/or groups of political parties concur in the expression of
suffrage.
They form and exercise their activities freely within respect for the Constitution, and
for the principles of national sovereignty and of democracy.
• Prohibited political parties
• Regulation of political parties
It is forbidden to them to identify themselves to a race, to an ethnicity, to a sex, to a
religion, to a sect, to a language or to a region.
• Restrictions on political parties
The formalities concerning the administrative declaration of the political parties
and/or groups, and to the exercise and to the cessation of their activities are
determined by the law.
Article 7
The Institutions of the Republic are:
• the executive power,
• the legislative power,
• the judicial power.
Each of these powers assumes the full and entire responsibility of its prerogatives
and attributions within such conditions that the continuity and regular functioning of
the republican institutions shall be assured.
Article 8
The institutions of the Republic must permit the normal and regular exercise of
popular sovereignty and guarantee the full expression of the public rights and
freedoms.
• International organizations
Article 9
The institutions must permit the participation of the Republic in regional and
international organizations, with respect for sovereignty, for the edification of peace
and of international justice and the economic, cultural and social development of
peoples.
Djibouti 1992 (rev. 2010)
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